... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... A Hidden object is used for passing name/value pairs when a form submits. ... JavaScript 1.0 . JavaScript 1.1: added type property The HTML INPUT tag, with "hidden" as the value of the TYPE attribute. ... Property . ... The form contains a "Display hidden value" button that the user can click to display the value of the Hidden object in an Alert dialog box. ... P><INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Display hidden value" NAME="button2" . ... Form name:<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="h1" VALUE="Beluga"> . ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

... You can "attach" arbitrary string-pointer pairs to a GtkObject instance, in effect adding a new data member. ... GtkWidget* button = gtk_button_new(); GtkWidget* label = gtk_label_new(_("Foo")); gtk_object_set_data(GTK_OBJECT(button), "my_label_key", label); . ... void gtk_object_set_data (GtkObject* object , const gchar* key , gpointer data ); . void gtk_object_set_data_full (GtkObject* object , const gchar* key , gpointer data , GtkDestroyNotify destroy ); . ... Object Finalization . ...

... Астронет | ... Переменные Звезды | ... Микролинзирование . ... На протяжении последних нескольких лет в рамках проекта MACHO проводятся наблюдения микролинзирования звезд Большого Магелланова Облака - спутника нашей Галактики. Эффект микролинзирования заключается в гравитационной фокусировке света звезды массивным объектом, находящимся на луче зрения между звездой и наблюдателем. ... Согласно некоторым гипотезам, линзами могут являться реликтовые черные дыры или "нейтралинные звезды". ...

... casa::LELCoordinates . ... LELCoordinates ( LELLattCoordBase *coordinates) . Construct the object from the given letter class. ... This is via the LELCoordinates member function coordinates which returns a reference to the letter base class LELLattCoordBase . For example, if the actual letter class object was LELImageCoord , one has to then cast the reference returned by LELCoordinates::coordinates() to an LELImageCoord . ... const LELLattCoordBase & casa::LELCoordinates::coordinates . ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... Newton's Laws . ... If object A exerts a force F on object B, . then object B exerts an equal and opposite force ?F on object A" . ... There exists a whole set of situations where two equal and opposite forces act on the same object, canceling each other so that no acceleration (or even no motion) occurs. ... It is all in Newton's third law: as your legs propel your body towards the dock, they also apply to the boat an equal force in the opposite direction, which pushes it away from the dock. ...

... Animation . Arrow . ... I created the first animation by running Script-Fu / Animators / Fire on the head of an arrow. ... I merged the animation with the background image, and specified a final X offset of -128 (the background is 128 pixels wide). This results in an animation with a nice moving background. Note that you can also use a background that is wider than the image, as long as you specify the width of the background for the final X offset if you want the final animation to loop. ...

... A lightweight stick with two balls of equal weight at its end obviously has its CG in the middle. When one ball is twice the weight of the other, the CG divides the distance between them by a ratio 1:2, in a way that makes it closer to the heavier mass ( see figure ). ... Even though the balls are separate, one can speak of their common center of gravity, on the line connecting their centers, 1/3 of the distance from the center of the heavier ball. ...

... Carefully measure the diameter of the craters formed by the impact without disturbing the sand. ... Crater diameter increases with increasing mass. ... Without disturbing the sand, carefully measure the crater diameter. ... Did you measure any difference in the diameters of the craters? Yes, as velocity increases, so does crater diameter. ... Impact cratering. ... Impact craters can be demonstrated with younger or less advanced students using mud instead of sand and ball bearings. ...

... In this first example, we allow an object to fall onto a small radar unit . The resulting Time-Frequency distribution is shown as a contour plot in Fig. 8 (a). Figure: FIGURE GOES SOMEWHERE IN THIS GENERAL VICINITY . ... Its density plot appears as an image in Fig. ... The response has a very high peak, as evidenced from Fig. ...

... movecalc (movecalc-1.5) [xmmsas_20041122_1834-6.1.0] . ... Add columns X_MOV / Y_MOV to table EVENTS in data set comet.ds . The track of the object is defined in table comet_track.ds : movecalc table=comet.ds:EVENTS objtrack=comet_track.ds . Add columns X_VAR / Y_VAR to table EV in data set saturn.ds . The track of the object is defined in table saturn_track.ds : movecalc table=saturn.ds:EV objtrack=saturn_track.ds xmovcol=X_VAR ymovcol=Y_VAR . ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... A fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in astronomical datasets ? ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you thought our tour of the solar system ended with Neptune and Pluto, you are setting your sights way too low. The planets of the solar system mark time relatively close to the Sun compared to interstellar space. Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind-numbing 260,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

... The force F of gravity between two objects of mass m and M, whose centres are a distance r apart, is given by Newton's famous equation: [pic], where G = 6.67(10-11 N m2 kg-2, and F is measured in Newtons. So, the force in orbit Fo is weaker than the force on the Earth's surface F0 by the ratio: [pic] where the radius of the Earth is 6,400 km, and the orbit is 1000 km above the Earth's surface. ... Energy Considerations Another way to see all this is to consider the energy of an object in orbit. ...